FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2009

BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD: "DEEP COVER FOR BATMAN!" AND "GAME OVER FOR OWLMAN!"

Warner Bros. Animation has released a description, clip and 33 images from a two-part episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network.

"Deep Cover for Batman!" kicks off the two-parter on Friday, March 6, with "Game Over for Owlman!" concluding the story on Friday, March 13.

Here's how Warner Bros.. describes the episodes:

"When parallel worlds collide, Batman swaps places with Owlman -- his criminal counterpart in an alternate universe -- to stop the Crime Syndicate from taking over their world. Crime fighters in one world must battle their evil counterparts in a crime spree melee. Meanwhile back on Earth, Owlman has been perpetrating crimes disguised as Batman and assembled all the villains to join him. When Batman returns, he finds himself on the wrong side of the law and hunted by Green Lantern, Aquaman, Blue Beetle, Red Tornado and Plastic Man. Itšs a strange twist of fate that leaves Batman with only one option - to team up with Joker and take Owlman and the Crime Syndicate down!"

The voice cast includes Diedrich Bader as Batman/Owlman, Jeff Bennett as Red Hood/The Joker, James Sie as Dyna-Mite, Corey Burton as Red Tornado/Silver Cyclone, Will Friedle as Blue Beetle/Scarlet Scarab and James Arnold Taylor as Green Arrow/Blue Bowman.

The story was written by Joseph Kuhr, and the episodes were directed by Michael Chang and Ben Jones.

BRIEFLY

* According to Variety, Jeffrey Dean Morgan -- who plays the Comedian in Watchmen -- is in negotiations to topline a movie based on DC Comics' The Losers.

The film, set up at Dark Castle, is written by James Vanderbilt and will be directed by Sylvain White.

* The Incredible Hulk movie will premiere on Cinemax early in the summer.

* Cartoon Network ranked No. 1 among basic cable networks for prime time delivery of boys 6-11 and 9-14 last week, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research. Fueled by performances from two new episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Friday, 9 and 9:30 p.m.) and the network premiere of Pokémon 11: Giratina & The Sky Warrior (Friday, 7-9 p.m.), Cartoon Network's overall prime time delivery of key kids demos across the week increased between 27 percent and 35 percent, compared to the same time period in 2008.

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